Steven Pinker Quotes

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Steven Pinker

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If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.

Matthew Desmond

LivePeopleYouPrettyNeighborhoods

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

Martin Sheen

BelievePresentGoodnessHumanUs

One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally.

Mike Huckabee

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It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

Michelle Forbes

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You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

Don Hewitt

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Your stage presence is as good as your screen presence.

Dhanush

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I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.

Chiaki Kuriyama

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Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

Annie Besant

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I had to face imprisonment and house arrests, but it made me tougher.

Asma Jahangir

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As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

Sylvia Earle

LifeAttitudeSeaOceanChildEnd

The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.

Pete Hoekstra

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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

Sherman Alexie

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